We are talking SuSE 6.5 PPC here aren't we, if so then, because I started off with SuSE 6.4 2.2.14 for PPC and haven't downloaded all 20+Mb of lx_suse version 2.2.16 from ftp-SuSE. Here in Australia, T1/E1 lines don't exist. Our telephone companies only use modems between continents!! Anything larger than two tins with string between them costs a fortune. Thats why I downloaded the kernel patches instead (kernel.org) - but they only apply to lx_linux and for some reason yaboot (on PPC) gets confused or something doesn't allow the new kernel to start.

On 22 Aug, Bruce wrote:

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Yes the 2.2.16 kernel for the PPC works, but we have no idea whats inside them.

We for example don't want to have anything to do with SCSI,IPX,ARCNET,Token Rings,Sound,Video and that stuff - this is an industrial and business environment and we need performance. We DO need more advanced options at the IP Network stage and Appletalk options which we CAN get with Redhat.

What is stopping you from rolling your own kernel from the SuSE 2.2.16 kernel source or the stock kernel source? I do it all the time here.

Are you doing this for the PPC?

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Likewise,if SuSE is modifing memory management facilities, then we need to know.

IIRC all they did with memory management in 2.2.16 is fixed a condition where the system is swapping too aggressively and apply the big mem patch.

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